Card-holder.



No. 806,525. PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

s. PLGROUSE. CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEDMAN P. OROUSE, OF BoSToN, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARD-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed June 20, 1905- Serial No. 266,121.

To all whom llama/1 concern.

Be it known that I, STEDMAN P. CRousE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usegoods.

A full understanding of my invention can best be given by a detailed description of a preferred construction of my device which is inexpensive, simple,;and durable, and a description of such a device will now be given in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the features forming this invention will then be specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the card-holders. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same cardholder, showing it inserted between. two of the strips of a pyramid of goods. Fig. 3 is a front perspective view of the same cardeach side of the central portion, and a supporting portion at the outer end of each of the outside loops. The supporting portions 8 8' extend rearward from and at right angles to the upright portions 7 7, being flattened their entire length, and the greatest distance between them being at their extreme outer ends and are adapted to be inserted between v the "layers a a of a stack of goods 0;. right outer inverted-U-shaped loop is composed of the upright slanted portions 7 and 9, having its connecting portion 14: at a height nearly equal to the portion 12. i The right inner U-shaped loop is composed of the upright slanted portions 9 and 10, so that it is readily The" seen that thep'ortion9 forms one side of both of the loops. The-lower portion 15 of this inner loop is on the same plane as the portion 8 and forms part of the support, so that a very heavy metal card C could be inserted and held firmly in place. forms two similar loops made by the slanted 3 upright portions 7 9 and 10, and the curved portions 14 and 15' are in the same planes,

. respectively, as the curved portions 14 and 15.

, Each of the inner portions 10 10 is curved slightly rearward toward the portions 9 9 at or near their central portions 11 11, so as to form a securing means for a card 0, inserted between the portions 9 10 and 9 10, the connecting portion 12 being bent slightly forward, so as to allow of readily inserting a card. If desired, the portions 7 x could also be curved slightly forward toward the portions 9 ator near their central part, as shown at 13 in Fig. 4, so as to hold a downward-extending card 0. If

- desired, the portion 7 could also be bent into a double outward-extending coil 16 for holding a card 0 which coil would extend forward from the lower portion of the upper part of the portion 7 but would not be forward of the portion 9, so that a cardc could be held. 'A similar -coil 16 for supporting a card 0 is formed on the upright portion 7 and the two flat horizontal portions 8 8' are adapted to be inserted between goods Z) Z).

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp 1. A card-holder formed of a wire bent to form two U-shaped loops on "each side of its central portion, each outer loop being inverted and the outer ends of the wire flattened and The left side of the wire extending horizontally rearward at right anbent to hold a card, andthe ends of the wire flattened and extending at right angles diagogles to the coil and flattened nearly its entire nally rearward. length, substantially as shown and described. 10

3. A card-holder formed of a Wire bent to In testimony whereof I affix my signature in form U-shaped loops on each side of its cenpresence of two Witnesses.

5 tral portion. each outer loop being inverted STEDMAN P. CROUSE.

and having its outer side formed into a double Witnesses: concentric coil, and each free end of the Wire CHARLES F. A. SMITH,

extending horizontally rearward at right an- SADIE E. POWERS. 

